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Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So stoked to share the official trailer for the Avatar Aang movie, now releasing JULY 25th on Paramount+!!

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Popped by #Vancaf this morning and picked up some goodies 📚 Free to attend and lots of great art everywhere ✨

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That’d be great! My schedule eases up after this week, I’ll send you a DM shortly :)

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Haha he was so good! I just moved to Vancouver last year after being in LA for a while. They have a great Shakespeare in the Park program over there, and I'm loving Bard on the Beach!

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yes!! This play is so much fun, what an incredible cast. I went to see one of their preview performance and was cracking up so much😆 ⚽

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Evan Palmer (nibuto) @evanpalmercomics.com · 29/06/2026

Hey hey! Sleeping Giants by Maha Tabikh, the Cartoon Cartoon I worked on (Character Design) from a few years back is finally out! I love it so much. youtu.be/cEmV3PZq4kc?...

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Sleeping Giants | Cartoon Cartoons

YouTube video by Warner Bros. TV

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So sorry Hannah, its been rough for sure. I lived in LA for almost 6 years and really went through a mourning period moving back to Canada last January. Wishing you all the luck landing the next gig 🙏

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kami @karekareo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Morning, morning (ghostpup) teaser! ✨ Support the creation of this short on the link below! On a routine job, a jaded young witch encounters the ghost of a dog that is mysteriously immune to her anti-ghost spells.

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Tony Cliff @tangocharlie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you’re at TCAF, waiting to talk to someone at their table, read this comic in the meantime! You will pass through the minutes like the gauziest of veils, and return to your hockey arena refreshed, somehow younger than before(?).

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charlee d. bryant (@ɢᴇᴛ.ᴠᴇɴᴛ) @getvent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

ANYWAYS if you want to check out animation made by ACTUAL PEOPLE check out the Cartoon Cartoons shorts that have finally been coming out (after being done for years lol)- a lot of love was put into every single one (if you know you know)! new shorts every monday! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Lisa DuBois-Thompson @joaniejabronie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

not drawing comic: oh how i wish i was drawing my comic drawing comic: how stupid of me, how foolish of an endeavor. each passing moment is agony. the sin of creativity which i have committed so naively has banished me to this purgatory of endless torment, that now i must draw a cash register

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

PleinAirpril's over but I've been finding these Vancouver studies a nice way to wind down and enjoy the seaside vibes ✨ #digitalart #studies

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Tony Cliff @tangocharlie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Happy #WebComicDay! It's the end of the 18th century and all our young hero wants is to get home to England in time to celebrate her 15th birthday. The only things standing in her way are haunted pirates, a rich asshole, and high expectations. PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY! tonycliff.com/dd4

A "cover," of sorts, for the comic "Practical Defence Against Piracy." Sword-wielding girl slashes through a pirate flag.

Chapter Two, page Two, of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY: a look at the unsettled nature of the populace of a small town.

Chapter Two, page three, of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY: more of a look at the unsettled nature of the populace of a small town.

Chapter Two, page four, of PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY: it's really sleepy in Archipoli (a view of the shipyards)

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

PleinAirpril studies of beautiful BC 🌸 #pleinairpril2026

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

PleinAirpril studies~ Mount Pleasant 🌸 #pleinairpril2026

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thanks Amanda! :) Still blown away by how beautiful BC is in April 🌸🌷

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

PleinAirpril studies~ Harrison Tulip Festival 🌷 #pleinairpril2026

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

PleinAirpril studies~ Vancouver in Spring 🌸 #pleinairpril2026

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

CBC article about my Dad and his creation of the BJ Birdy mascot www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/01/2026

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social defend612.com

ICE OUT
Cartoonists against ICE
Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities!

*4-panel comics*
*3:4 Instagram format*
Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy *

Use these hashtags:
#iceout[your city]
#iceoutmpls
#iceoutcomics

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/01/2026

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy.
Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie.

I'm still learning how to understand her.

Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo?
Do you need to do a widdle piddle?

Minnie: Arf!

*I just call her "little baby" most of the time.

I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now.
Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy.
Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now.

Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers.

I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless.
The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective.

I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition.
ICE will pick up anybody.

I know that.

So I tucked my passport away.

And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too.
And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized.
We'll do our best to get through this.

Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thanks Alex! I find them very meditative to do. Sending you all the good drawin' vibes!

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Sketchbook speed-run #studies July-Dec 💨 Big thanks to The Vancouver Artist group, zeet_studio_sketch, bodiesinmotion.photo #gesdrawparty for all the inspiration this year 🙏✨ Wishing everyone good vibes in 2026! 🐴

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Figure drawings referencing BodiesinMotion.photo #studies

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Quick ink study from the central library rooftop #studies

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Thanks! He’s a lil guy 🗡️🦀

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Thanks Matt! It’s a lovely and peaceful place

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden #studies

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Caleb’s adventures with fish-Essek are so cute! 😆

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank you Amanda!! 🥲🙏

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder:
Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up.
Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Evan Palmer (nibuto) @evanpalmercomics.com · 08/08/2025

Listen, I had to.

Anne of Green Gables kicks Frieza in the face.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

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